Aphex Twin's first video in 17 years was directed by a 12-year-old YouTuber
It clocks in at over 8 minutes
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Your support makes all the difference.Despite having come long before the YouTube age, Apex Twin music videos are legend.
There was ‘Come To Daddy’, with its horde of mini-Aphex Twins terrorising the elderly, and ‘Window Licker’, with its unhinged stretch limo shot, and now, 17 years since the last video, ‘CIRKLON3 [ Колхозная mix ]’.
It’s not as iconic, but its concept is pretty weird/interesting.
Rather than enlisting the help of a director with high art intentions, Aphex Twin (Richard D. James) brought in 12-year-old Irish boy Ryan Wyer.
Wyer’s YouTube channel doesn’t have a huge following, but it must have been the odd blend of gaming videos and lo-fi satanic slideshows that drew the musician in.
The new music video sees Ryan playing in the street, his house and in a nearby park, edited together with the kind of effects you thought were really trippy and cool when you were 12 (maximum contrast, everything desaturated except one colour, that sort of thing).
‘CIRKLON3 [ Колхозная mix ]’ is taken from Aphex Twin’s upcoming Cheetah EP.
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